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<para>Checking for inactive maintainers</para>
<para>Machtelt Garrels, newly appointed Review Coordinator, took a dive into the HOWTO collection. All authors of inactive documents (not updated this year) were contacted and asked if they planned to update their documents any time soon. The results of this are <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org">here</ulink> and <ulink url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/authors.php">here</ulink>.</para>
<para>Machtelt Garrels, newly appointed Review Coordinator, took a dive
into the HOWTO collection. All authors of inactive documents (not
updated this year) were contacted and asked if they planned to update
their documents any time soon. The <ulink
url="http://tille.xalasys.com/training/tldp/authors.php">results of the
effort</ulink> are available. In case you can get in touch with any of
the inactive document authors and maintainers of the documents that you
use often, please send in the information to the
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email> address. </para>
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<para>HOWTOs for Hardware</para>
<para>While on the discussion about the demo page that was setup by jdd at
<ulink url="http://dodin.org/~tldp/mw/index.php/Main_Page" />, Saqib Ali
said that TLDP as it currently exist should now retire as most
of the HOWTOs (including ones authored by him) are not needed anymore, since the
linux
distros and other opensource apps have started producing excellent
documentation. David Lawyer <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9643:200509:claiepedajakajhoajgg">responded</ulink>
saying <quote>There is more need than ever for HOWTOs covering hardware.
The apps
seldom cover hardware and if they do, may not cover it adequately.
One problem is that there is a lot of hardware that doesn't work with
Linux due to Windows-only drivers. In other cases the hardware will
work under Linux but doesn't have all its features supported by the
Linux driver. Also, some hardware is defective in design, but will
still work if the driver has a workaround. Currently, there's only
limited coverage of hardware by HOWTOs and much of it is
out-of-date.</quote></para>
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